I know that it’s named after a dude (Sir George Everest), but have you ever actually looked at that word? Ever-est. The most ever. What a perfectly fitting name for the highest mountain on Earth. Over five thousand people have attempted to reach the summit, the top of the world. Why? The most interesting answer…
American remakes of foreign films… I occasionally struggle to understand the motivation behind the genre. Obviously, classics like The Magnificent Seven (a remake of Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai) hold up on their own and justify themselves by situating themselves as separate artistic entities, with certain changes demanded by the cultural differences and shift in setting, basically…
Inherent Vice (2014) Did you see the trailer to this movie? If not, please do; I’ve posted it below. If you have already seen it, then you know it warrants multiple views: this is a prime trailer. I plan on discussing it a fair amount in this article, so you should probably watch it. The…
Put yourself in Southern Texas, in the shoes of an average Joe retired welder who stumbles across millions of dollars in a bag after a drug exchange goes wrong. Sounds like a pretty good place to be, right? Well, now take off those shoes and slip in a crazed psychopathic killer with an uncanny tracking…
That sums it up pretty well, actually. Huh. I guess the review’s over. You can all go back to Facebook or Twitter or whatever. No, wait, please stay, we need you. I mean, whatever. Gangster Squad (2013): The Plot: BASED ON A TRUE STORY!!!1! Los Angeles, 1949. New York gangster Mickey Cohen (Sean Penn) has…
A witty and hilarious introduction. Weak, dude.
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